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AmazonSoftware Development Manager
Dec. 2020 - Dec. 2023AustinZigbee, Matter, Thread, IOT product development for Alexa Echo products. Management of architecture and design of Amazon Devices. My team and I designed and implemented the integration of Matter over thread into all Alexa devices. This included the consolidation of multiple chip vendor provided Zigbee stacks to a single software vendor giving the freedom of the commodities team to utilize chip sets from different vendors without changing the software. This saved Amazon a significant amount of costs in resources dedicated to software up-leveling, testing and QA, along with improving security.
Broadcom LimitedSr. Software Engineering Manager
Nov. 2014 - Nov. 2020Austin, Texas AreaCCX Connectivity Division of Broadcom. Manage the India and US teams for Linux, Windows, and VMware device drivers. Work closely with Linux distro partners, Microsoft, and OEM's to deliver high quality kernel networking drivers for 1/10/25/50/100 and 1000 gig Broadcom ASICs. All of the software my teams did worked on hypervisor technology. Teams had a specialty in dealing with RDMA and RoCE (RDMA over converged ethernet) technologies, including knowing how to spread loads over numa nodes.
SnipMe Inc.CTO / VP of Engineering
Oct. 2014 - Jan. 2015Austin, Texas AreaSocial Media startup utilizing Amazon AWS, elastic transcoding, Cordova HTML/CSS and Javascript apps for iPhone and Android. Hired and managed India team and primary contributor to front and back end architecture, coding and debugging in Xcode, AWS .php backend, and video transcoding.
PolycomSenior Software Manager, CX5000 Products
May. 2014 - Sep. 2014Austin, Texas AreaManage Microsoft relations, product development lifecycle, engineering schedules and resources for a muti-site product team, 60+ resources in India that dealt with all of the stack components of video conferencing equipment.
Intellfifect, Inc.CTO / VP Engjneering
Dec. 2012 - Dec. 2013San Francisco Bay Area• Led the development of AI-based software at Intellifect, Inc. to create emotionally interactive user experiences.
• Implemented user activity learning algorithms to personalize software responses.
• Spearheaded the design of software that adapts to user behavior for a more engaging experience.
PolycomSenior Systems Bring-Up Manager
May. 2011 - May. 2014AustinDVT for new video codec hardware, system bring-up of Linux, drivers, manufacturing diagnostic software, simulation, competitive analysis, planning, resourcing, overseas team management, etc.
MCCI CorporationDirector of Engineering
May. 2005 - May. 2011Reported directly to CEO. Director of Engineering for Austin office. Found the building, engaged in lease negotiations, QA lab construction, hiring all staff including architects and engineers, worked with local university UT, and operational tasks to attract, staff, and hire local engineering talent. Training India based engineers on site and managing corporate apartments. Individual contributor to Windows based device drivers for video and USB controllers. Wireless USB, USB to Video device drivers, WHQL test manager. Multi-function role.
Standard Microsystems CorporationSenior Software Engineer Windows Device Drivers
Nov. 1998 - Mar. 2005Architected and implemented USB, ethernet and mass storage-class drivers for Windows and Macintosh. Managed embedded firmware team for a USB and Ethernet hardware products.
National InstrumentsSenior Software Engineer DMA based Device Drivers
Aug. 1990 - Oct. 1998Scientific instrumentation drivers, Macintosh / Windows. GPIB and Labview driver engineer, machine imaging software drivers for custom DMA controllers, GUI control software, DSP camera, drivers. Wrote the first Windows 98 VXD Driver for National Instruments. 400th employee company. Multiple patents for DMA software design. Very experienced with low level software design, manipulating hardware and link list DMA algorithms utilizing physical memory, locked down with page boundaries, and all the cashing and other considerations to deal with.
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